Karen Glass Blog
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Karen Glass is part of the Advisory of AmblesideOnline. She has four children, ages 13 to 27, who have been homeschooled using Charlotte Mason's methods from beginning to end. She has been studying and writing about Charlotte Mason and Classical Education for over twenty years.
Karen Glass Blog
6M ago
I’m so pleased to be able to share that this little chapbook collection of essays is ready to make its way out of my “to do” pile of thinking, editing, formatting, and proofing and into the wider world. I hope you’ll be kind and gentle with it, and in return, I hope that it will ..read more
Karen Glass Blog
7M ago
I don’t know that anyone else has been waiting a long time, but I have! I began writing this book in 2019 and now it’s 2024. Many things have happened since I began, and of course I wasn’t working on this book all that time. That’s why it’s taken so long to finish! I had ..read more
Karen Glass Blog
1y ago
Somehow, this is my first post of 2023. I’m excited to be able to share that I will be hosting a live, in-person seminar local to me! If you live within driving distance of Indianapolis, I hope you’ll consider joining me for a day of fellowship and deep thinking about Charlotte Mason and her important ..read more
Karen Glass Blog
1y ago
I’ve published a post like this for many years. 2017. 2018. 2019. I did not publish one in 2020. Guess why? I did read books in 2020, but I was mostly in survival mode, and I wasn’t terribly successful. I didn’t have the heart to post anything about reading in 2020. In 2021, my life ..read more
Karen Glass Blog
1y ago
Do you keep a commonplace book? Many Charlotte-Mason-inspired readers do, and we encourage our older students to keep one as well, in lieu of the copywork that belongs to younger children. Since Charlotte Mason recommended it as a practice, I suppose she kept one, too, though they seem to have gone astray. Amongst her things ..read more
Karen Glass Blog
1y ago
One of my favorite books is A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith. I have read it countless times, and reread it in every decade of my life. I love Francie Nolan, who once got a job at a Press Clipping Bureau. Now, because I have read the novel so many times, I also ..read more
Karen Glass Blog
1y ago
This particular nugget will be especially valuable to parents of older children. If you have been using Charlotte Mason’s methods for a good while, you have probably found that, at approximately age 12 or so, children can become rather bored of simply “telling back” all their reading by way of straightforward narration. This is still ..read more
Karen Glass Blog
1y ago
In 2020, I posted a series of four “nuggets from the Armitt,” in which I shared fun tidbits that I gleaned from my visit to the Armitt museum in Ambleside, England, where all of Charlotte Mason’s and the PNEU’s artifacts are housed, including a complete collection of all the volumes of the Parents’ Review and ..read more
Karen Glass Blog
1y ago
I began teaching online classes earlier this year. So far, I’ve taught several sessions of a book study on my own book, In Vital Harmony, which I’ll offer again in the future. I’ve received several suggestions for future classes, and I’ve been working on a few things. I’ve got two new classes lined up for ..read more
Karen Glass Blog
1y ago
Hosted via the Beautiful Teaching website, I’m going to be offering another in-person online book study for In Vital Harmony. Over six weeks, we’ll meet once per week on Thursdays for live lecture and discussion. This time, there will also be some study notes available ahead of time and discussion space outside of class time ..read more